“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”
“A writer who makes serious money is never taken seriously. Writers and artists are expected to suffer poverty and privation for their art; it’s a sign of “authenticity.”
“An artist is someone who makes art;only artist can create a work of art.”
“All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accidentenabling unpopular persons to survive.”
“I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious.""Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense.""Nobody ever does.”
“There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.”